WO2004110006A1 - 8-vsb like backward-compatible robust stream modulation for atsc digital tv transmission - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N7/00—Television systems
- H04N7/015—High-definition television systems
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- H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
- H04N21/238—Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. adapting the transmission rate of a video stream to network bandwidth; Processing of multiplex streams
- H04N21/2383—Channel coding or modulation of digital bit-stream, e.g. QPSK modulation
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- H04B1/68—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission for wholly or partially suppressing the carrier or one side band
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- H04L27/00—Modulated-carrier systems
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- H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
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- the present invention relates to modifying an American Television Standards Committee (ATSC) digital TV signal in a backward compatible manner to enable broadcasting a signal that has a different degree of robustness together with the existing signal.
- ATSC American Television Standards Committee
- the ATSC transmission format for digital television uses and 8 level vestigial sideband (8-VSB) technique in which each successive 3 bit symbol is transmitted as one of 8 possible signal amplitudes.
- 8-VSB 8 level vestigial sideband
- the key to achieving robustness in a backward compatible manner lies in the signal processing of the error correction part of the transmitter.
- FIG. 1 A top level diagram of the mixing of a robust stream with a standard stream is shown in FIG. 1.
- the 8-VSB ATSC standard uses signals mapped to one of the eight levels:
- the system and method of the present invention applies multiple modulation types in a single stream of standard and robust symbols in such a way that the statistics of the output signal look like a standard 8-VSB signal. If, for example, according to the present invention one of the set of constellation points
- the average output signal will look like a standard 8-VSB signal because the set union of the 4-level alphabet constellation point sets ⁇ -7,-l, 3, 5 ⁇ and ⁇ -5,-3, 1, 7 ⁇ is the eight level constellation point set ⁇ -7,-1, 3, 5,-5,-3, 1, 7 ⁇ .
- FIG. 1 illustrates the mixing a robust stream with a standard stream of a standard ATSC digital
- FIG. 2 illustrates the constellation diagrams.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a simplified top-level diagram of the last stage of an ATSC VSB encoder modified according to the present invention.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a high level flow diagram for the part of the last stage of an ATSC VSB encoder modified according to the present invention.
- the average signal 203 looks like a standard 8-VSB signal 200.
- the constellations are achieved by manipulating the input to the trellis encoder 304 of a standard 8-VSB system 300.
- the control sequence generator 303 instructs the pre-processor 302 to generate the appropriate bits such that when these bits are input to the standard trellis encoder 304, the output of this standard trellis encoder 304 is forced to be one of the desired 8-VSB constellation points.
- the standard trellis encoder device 304 produces a stream of trellis encoded bits corresponding to bits of the multiplexed stream of input bits and additionally maps the trellis encoded bits into symbols so that multiple modulation types are employed in a single stream in such a way that the statistics of the output signal look like a standard 8-VSB signal.
- robust and existing standard bit streams are mixed in a backward compatible manner such that a signal that has a different degree of robustness can be transmitted together with an existing signal thus allowing better reception of ATSC digital TV signals.
- a standard stream symbol is received 401 or a robust stream symbol is received 402 and is multiplexed 403 into a single stream and output to a pre-processor 302.
- a control sequence generator 303 continually monitors and identifies 404 the type of symbol of the multiplexed stream that is entering the pre-processor 302. For each robust symbol identified 405, the control sequence generator 303 instructs the pre-processor to generate appropriate bits 406 to force the standard trellis encoder 304 to output one of the 8-VSB constellation points.
- control sequence generator 303 directs generation of bits by the pre-processor 302 that force the standard trellis encoder 304 to produce an averaged constellation 203 that is substantially a standard 8-VSB constellation 200 by randomly selecting one of a pair 201 202 of reduced 4-level alphabets that together average to a standard 8-VSB constellation 203. That is, the resulting data stream contain normal data multiplexed with robust data such that statistics of the data stream are such that it appears to be a standard 8-VSB stream.
- the present invention is embodied in the ATSC-compliant embedding of information bearing symbols in a data stream and creates a more robust tier of service while maintaining backward compatibility with existing ATSC-compliant receivers and transmitters.
- the four requirements for such backward compatibility with legacy 8-VSB ATSC systems are satisfied by the system and method of the present invention:
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